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Saturday, 27 June 2015

Gardening in July

Flower garden


  • Cut back lupins and delphiniums that have finished flowering to encourage a second flush later in the season
  • Continue to deadhead the flower border on a regular basis as this will also encourage more flowers later on.
  • Don’t forget to feed all the flower borders and containers every two weeks.  Containers may need watering as much as twice a day in very hot weather.
  • Keep up with the weeding otherwise the weeds will take moisture and nutrients meant for your flowers..
  • Take time out to sit in your garden and enjoy!


Lawn


  • Keep mowing regularly unless there is a drought.  Leave the clippings on the lawn to act as a mulch in hot weather. Do not feed the grass.
  • Set the mower blade slightly higher than before so that if it becomes very hot the grass will not dry out as much.
  • Only water any recently sown grass or new turf.  If an existing lawn does go brown it will recover after the first rains.


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